Often you have the problem that in large builds, you need to find where time is consumed.
This is an EventSpy implementation which collects all the information of all phases and mojo executions and make a summarization output at the end of the build.
This extension will only work for Maven 3.3.1+ (>= 0.5.0) and requires JDK8+
If you like to use this extension for Maven you have to define the following .mvn/extensions.xml file:
<extensions xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/EXTENSIONS/1.1.0"
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/EXTENSIONS/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/core-extensions-1.1.0.xsd">
  <extension>
    <groupId>com.soebes.maven.extensions</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-buildtime-profiler</artifactId>
    <version>0.5.0</version>
  </extension>
</extensions>If you don't like to add the .mvn/extensions.xml to your project you can also go via command line like this:
mvn verify -Dmaven.ext.class.path=$HOME/.m2/repository/com/soebes/maven/extensions/maven-buildtime-profiles/0.5.0/maven-buildtime-profiler-0.5.0.jar
The download from Maven Central will be done by Maven itself.
If you like to deactivate the extension without removing the .mvn/extensions.xml file this can easily achieved,
by adding the following to your command line (system property):
mvn -Dmaven-build-time-profiler.disabled verify 
That means only the following lines will appear in your console output:
[INFO] Maven Build Time Profiler started. (Version 0.5.0)
[INFO] Maven Build Time Profiler deactivated.
That will give you the explicit hint that the extension has been deactivated.
Hint: It is NOT possible to deactivate the extension via properties from your pom.xml file!
Here's an example of what the output will look like:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] --             Maven Build Time Profiler Summary                      --
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Project discovery time:       85 ms
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Project Build Time (reactor order):
[INFO]
[INFO] parse-pom:
[INFO]          169 ms : clean
[INFO]          457 ms : process-resources
[INFO]          663 ms : compile
[INFO]           14 ms : process-test-resources
[INFO]          197 ms : test-compile
[INFO]         1109 ms : test
[INFO]         1105 ms : package
[INFO]          811 ms : integration-test
[INFO]           53 ms : verify
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Lifecycle Phase summary:
[INFO]
[INFO]      169 ms : clean
[INFO]      457 ms : process-resources
[INFO]      663 ms : compile
[INFO]       14 ms : process-test-resources
[INFO]      197 ms : test-compile
[INFO]     1109 ms : test
[INFO]     1105 ms : package
[INFO]      811 ms : integration-test
[INFO]       53 ms : verify
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Plugins in lifecycle Phases:
[INFO]
[INFO] clean:
[INFO]      169 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:3.0.0:clean (default-clean)
[INFO] process-resources:
[INFO]      457 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.7:resources (default-resources)
[INFO] compile:
[INFO]      663 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.3:compile (default-compile)
[INFO] process-test-resources:
[INFO]       14 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.7:testResources (default-testResources)
[INFO] test-compile:
[INFO]      197 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.3:testCompile (default-testCompile)
[INFO] test:
[INFO]     1109 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.18.1:test (default-test)
[INFO] package:
[INFO]      871 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.6:single (make-executable-jar)
[INFO]      234 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.6:jar (default-jar)
[INFO] integration-test:
[INFO]      811 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin:2.18.1:integration-test (failsafe-integration-test)
[INFO] verify:
[INFO]       53 ms: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin:2.18.1:verify (failsafe-verify)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ForkTime: 0
Most important might be in this relationship that you will get also information about the time taken to install artifacts:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Installation summary:
[INFO]        0 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        1 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:parent:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        5 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:test:jar
[INFO]        1 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service-client:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        0 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:domain:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        3 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:webgui:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        1 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:jar
[INFO]        0 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service-client:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:jar
[INFO]        1 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:domain:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:jar
[INFO]       10 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:archive:zip
[INFO]       19 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:prod:jar
[INFO]        6 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:dev:jar
[INFO]        6 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:prod:jar
[INFO]        1 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        6 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:dev:jar
[INFO]        1 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        0 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:appasm:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        2 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:webgui:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:war
[INFO]        8 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:app:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:pom
[INFO]        1 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:jar
[INFO]        3 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:app:1.1.2-SNAPSHOT:ear
[INFO] 75 ms  34,888,754 bytes. 443.633 MiB / s
And much more important are things like the time for the deployment:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Deployment summary:
[INFO]       19 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:pom
[INFO]       20 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service-client:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:jar
[INFO]       80 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:prod:jar
[INFO]       20 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:pom
[INFO]       19 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:jar
[INFO]       84 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:webgui:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:war
[INFO]       20 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:jar
[INFO]      192 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:archive:zip
[INFO]       79 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:prod:jar
[INFO]       20 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:webgui:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:pom
[INFO]       23 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service-client:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:pom
[INFO]       90 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:dev:jar
[INFO]       38 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:domain:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:jar
[INFO]       19 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:appasm:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:pom
[INFO]       18 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:app:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:pom
[INFO]      103 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:assembly:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:dev:jar
[INFO]       39 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:parent:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:pom
[INFO]      101 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:shade:1.1.2-20160306.145402-11:test:jar
[INFO]       93 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:app:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:ear
[INFO]       19 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:service:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:pom
[INFO]       18 ms : com.soebes.examples.j2ee:domain:1.1.2-20160306.145401-11:pom
[INFO] 1,114 ms  34,888,754 bytes. 29.868 MiB / s
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